The eleventh RTO project 21631 "Buyan-M" will go to serve in the Baltic
Zelenodolsk shipyard is preparing to launch another small missile ship (RTO) project 21631 "Buyan-M". The ship will join fleet towards the end of the year.
In Zelenodolsk, the construction of the RTO "Naro-Fominsk" is being completed, the ship is being prepared for launching and completion already afloat. The ship will have to go for trials in the first half of this year, and join the Navy in the fall, the exact dates have not yet been determined, they depend on the completion of outfitting work. The RTO was laid down on February 23, 2018.
As reported "News", The Ministry of Defense has already decided on the place of further service of the Naro-Fominsk RTOs, the eleventh Buyan-M will go to serve in the Baltic, although it was originally planned to send the ship to the Black Sea Fleet or the Caspian Flotilla. A crew has already been formed for the ship, and the necessary infrastructure has been prepared at the naval base in Baltiysk. Most likely, Naro-Fominsk will become part of the 36th RTO Brigade, which includes the 1st Guards Missile Boat Battalion and the 106th Small Missile Ship Battalion.
To date, the Russian Navy has nine IRAs of project 21631 "Buyan-M", three more are being completed in Zelenodolsk. The tenth "Grad" and the eleventh "Naro-Fominsk" fleet will receive in 2022, another - the twelfth "Stavropol" - in 2023. This will complete the series of small missile ships of this project.
Earlier, the Navy announced that the project 22800 Karakurt RTOs had been ordered to replace Buyan-M.
The ships of the project 21631 "Buyan-M" are the modernization of the project 21630 "Buyan" and belong to the multipurpose ships of the "river-sea" class. Designed to protect the economic zone of the state. The main armament is the Kalibr-NK long-range universal missile system for eight vertical silos. Displacement 949 tons. Length 74,1 meters, width 11,0 meters, height 6,57 meters, draft 2,6 meters. The maximum speed is 25 knots. Cruising range - 2500 miles, autonomy - 10 days. Crew - 52 people. A water-jet propulsion unit is installed.
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